Dear Debbie,
I hope you can guide me. I took a picture of a friend and I want to make it look like it was taken in the sixties. We did a good job with the makeup and clothing but the picture look obviously like it was taken today. How can I make it seem older?
Thank you so much,
Lost in time
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Dear Debbie,
I have a portrait of someone with a real blemish issue, and I need to make her skin clear. I'm using Adobe Photoshop Elements, and the only way that I can see to fix blemishes is to use the Spot Healing Brush. Can you suggest something faster? I'll get carpel tunnel if I have to remove each and every spot this way.
Signed,
Impatient Retoucher, Alto, Michigan
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Dear Debbie,
I have always been a fan of Ansel Adams and I learned that he sometimes used selenium toner to get the cold blue-blacks in his images. I have tried using Photoshop CS2 with some tone applied as your article in the November issue shows, but I can't seem to get the blue cast into solid black areas. I use a Canon Pixma 5000 with 4 ink cartridges. Is there a 3rd party black ink that might help, or some other solution?
Signed,
Black and Blue in Cold Spring, KY
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Dear Debbie,
Hope you can answer my question, because I can't get anyone else to! I have a Canon Digital SLR, and my pics look good, but they don't have that clear, almost perfect "zap." What is that zap, and how do I achieve it? Can I get it with Photoshop?
Thanks so much,
Zapless Photos
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